Introduction -- A Research Agenda -- The Role of Banks in the Schumpeterian Innovative Evolution - An Axiomatic Set-up -- Generalized Barriers to Entry and Economic Development -- Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America -- Formal and...

A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance better serve the needs of poor countries and poor people. It contains contributions by economists and political scientists who have been at the centre...